If you like to laugh, volume one

There are 30 poems, most with unusual (often startling) themes in this first volume of the "If you like to laugh" series. The size of the verses range from one stanza to several "pages", appropriate for any age, from middle school reader to senior citizen. These are, I believe, quality verses, unlike anything you may have read before. The humor depends on irony, reversals, and absurdity. More

There are 30 light verses in "If you like to laugh, volume one", and they range in size from one stanza to several "pages" long. There is a wide variety of subject matter: The strange salvation of one of our Founding Fathers, the conversion of Jodie the FBI agent into a fan of Hannibal Lector, the truth about the death of the legendary cowboy Pecos Bill, the worst lay-offs in American history (designed as consolation for all of us recently let go), the surgical interns you pray you will never meet, the worst aerial search pilots in Europe, the profound wisdom of a mother crick, and much more. The humor in this volume is based on reversal, irony, comical situations, or absurdities, and is clean, appropriate for an age range from middle-schooler to senior citizen.

I am always happy when a reader takes an interest in one of my ebooks. There's millions of choices for the discerning searcher so it's somewhat of a miracle when someone even previews something that I have written. To date, my most popular ebooks have been "The Death Of Medicine", about a surgeon called 'The Savior Of Mothers' (his techniques are now being used to combat a possible mega-epidemic called 'CRE'); a short story that is an homage to The Twilight Zone ("11/11/11")and accurately presaged the current American political situation; a short story about the pilgrimage of a real-life Russian idealist entitled "Why The Russian Language May Be A Clever Hoax"; and a series of humor books, the "If You Like to Laugh" volumes. I also write children's books and children's comedy. I try to keep my humor clean and free from cruelty but, above all, very funny. "The Monsters That Were Afraid Of Children" and "The Dog Who Cried Woof" are my two most popular children's stories but I believe there are some undiscovered gems in my children's catalogue. Finally, I also write satirical pieces, such as "Canada died?", which reflects on my thoughts after I recently found one of those 'Canada. 1867-2008' in-memoriam nickels among my change. (Save those coins--they'll be worth a fortune some day) and the Rocky the Rock life-lessons series. I hope you enjoy all my books and stories.